PhineasC

IMO, it beats warmer air and suppression, which is the alternative, it seems.

Well, maybe coastal sections would complain, but they appear to be set up for several events starting right now. If they fumble the ball and end up with rain and slop instead, that's outside of my control. LOL Interior SNE has done well. A look at the snowfall totals so far this season will show that. There is a screw zone in Maine, for sure. Maybe western MA as well. I can't remember if they got clobbered in the mid-December storm or not. The three big synoptic storms up here (early December, mid January, and early February) were also not universally awesome, especially for the CNE and eastern NH/ME areas that don't really get upslope. Not complaining here. We have a deep pack, and the coastals have worked out here. Would be nice to get a flush hit for everyone in NNE, however. All the big storms this winter have been flawed in some way and kinda marginal. Agreed on the bread and butter pattern being just right for spots with good pack. No doubt about it.

It’s a coastal SNE pattern right now. Hopefully they manage to turn this liquid into snow this time. LOL

Sounds like in this case he should have listened to the other person with him who refused to go out on the slope.

Well, if I was -30 that means Alex and the other better radiator spots might be -45. LOL

Yeah, it seems like none of the coastal storms that did get up here have really worked out for you. We haven’t really had a flush hit across the area from a synoptic event. It’s been a SNE-centric winter. The next several impulses have trended south too. We will get a couple inches here and there but no big dogs on the horizon. Where is the cold? Kinda dumb to have the storm track suppressed south when it isn’t even that cold here.

GYX: “Maybe a couple snow showers in the north, but otherwise quiet.”

That's good, I would expect suppression then. I just hate suppression when temps aren't even cold. Just seems bootleg to me. Dumb pattern.

I'd be more OK with everything being shunted south of me to hit coastal SNE if it was at least cold here. It isn't cold at all. Suppression sucks when you don't even have arctic cold to show for it.

Not all of it... Although some folks at GYX certainly seem to think that with their forecasts for upslope here. LOL

Tuesday definitely came back to life on the 12z Euro. It had been trending south where it would have fizzled out as slop or rain.

Nice, you needed that. About an inch here. The whole thing just never really got going here.

Have you been back to Wildcat since the last storm?

In all seriousness, I hope you guys get crushed and this storm doesn't slip away like a little bitch. You guys got robbed in the last event. You are due. I spent like 15+ years on these boards in MD watching BOS get slammed with massive blizzards and being jealous. I want to see that BOS again.

Thank you, this is a helpful bit of context to the discussion for sure. We mostly just ski blue (sometimes black) groomers right now while I am teaching the kids the basics on various kinds of trails (although they are learning at an incredible pace and are already starting to pick their own terrain to tackle). I am not doing anything like racing, and when I encounter major ice on a trail we try a different trail or pack it in. We don't ski that stuff as we have the flexibility up here now to just avoid it -- for now at least. My older daughter and younger son seem to be turning into powder hounds. They have been spending most of their time hunting for little clusters of trees to blast though or stretches of untracked powder under the lifts, so I think more of that will be in our future soon. My skis are still pretty sharp I think and the bases are not whitish or too dinged up. The kids' skis are little a rougher just from the abuse kids inflict; not as worried about them since they are still just learning and not pushing any limits. Good advice on just getting a tune and seeing what happens. I am going to the ski shop tomorrow anyway (kid feet grow very fast) and may just drop my stuff off for a tune. I spent the last 25 years doing one or two ski trips a year out west or up to NNE and then that was it. It was never enough volume of ski days for this to ever even cross my mind.

No windows down here in my weather tracking bunker. I am told it is snowing outside right now, however. I am all-in on getting the SNE beach and canal locations a snowstorm, even if it means I gotta get this low down near Bermuda.

Still a nice little event. Gotta take what you can in winter.

I see that a lot on metal roofs around here. Another thing I had really never seen until I moved up here. That's a very impressive specimen, however.

Snow just started here in earnest. Was getting freezing mist and flurries for a while. 22 degrees.

We will all be hugging the SREFs and RPM soon enough!

Looks like climo to me.

Still looks good for ships and boats.

SREFs will score the coup here. Bank it!

Mrs. Magoo?

The smooth jazz soundtrack of the 1990s for me. That seemed to be on everywhere back then.